Dominate South Asia

The Union Republic of Ukraine is the second largest union republic after Russia. Many of the Soviet military industries are located in Ukraine. Affected by the warm and humid air currents in the Atlantic, most areas here have a temperate continental climate, which is warm and humid. Warm, not cold in winter.

The capital of Ukraine is Kiev. In the north of Kiev, not far from the border with Belarus, stands a neat and beautiful small city, Pripyat.

This small town was built in the 1970s to accommodate construction workers and staff building the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. After all, this is a large nuclear power plant that produces enough electricity to meet one-tenth of Ukraine's electricity needs.

It is early spring now, surrounded by green and dense forests. Silver birch trees stand tall and graceful. A gust of wind blows, and the leaves make a rustling sound. The tall and straight pine trees are lush and lush. The air is fresh and the clear blue sky is floating. Blossoming white clouds. In the entire Soviet Union, this was also a city with beautiful scenery. Therefore, not only were there various workers, but many tourists lingered here and finally chose to live here.

Three kilometers away from the small town, nestled among the birch trees, is a huge building, the pride of the Soviet and Ukrainian people, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.

The plant, which consists of four reactors, each capable of producing 1 gigawatt of electricity, was built in the 1970s. Reactor 1 was commissioned in 1977, followed by three more reactors in 1978, 1981 and 1983. Enable. There are also two reactors under construction, No. 5 and No. 6, both of which are RBMK-1000 models.

Now, this nuclear power plant welcomes a group of special people.

Representatives from Pakistan in a helicopter. It landed next to the nuclear power plant. When the helicopter's rotors stopped rotating, the hatch above opened and several bearded people walked out.

Just a few years ago, when it came to Pakistanis, they were the enemies of all Soviets! Now, just over a year later, this argument has disappeared. Pakistan seems to have no conflicts with itself. It is like a family. Even the most proud nuclear power plant of the Soviet Union can provide assistance to them!

Of course, it was claimed that these people were from Iraq, a country that was relatively friendly to the Soviet Union, but of course Kyatlov, the chief engineer of the nuclear power plant, knew the inside story. These people are really from Pakistan! The leader is Pakistan’s Industry Minister Asif!

These enemies! You should have gone to hell long ago! Kyatlov cursed in his mind. One side greeted him.

"Welcome our distinguished guest." Kyatlov said: "I am the chief engineer here, Kyatlov."

"Where are the people from the KGB?" Asif, who was opposite, had a very high attitude.

In addition to being responsible for various external intelligence, the KGB is also responsible for internal supervision, including all aspects of safety production. Therefore, this time Pakistan came to inspect the Soviet nuclear reactor. In addition to the staff of the nuclear power plant, they will also be accompanied by people from the KGB.

For Asif, the people from the KGB are more important, because President Hamad's mission is to come here and do everything possible to get Kyatlov out. Although he didn't know what grudge this guy had with President Hamad, Asif knew that if he wanted to try his best to complete this matter, he would need the KGB.

"They will be here soon," Kyatlov said.

Just as he was talking, several cars drove over from a distance. They came from the direction of Kyiv.

When these cars are parked here, from the car. A tall man got out of the car.

Those sharp eyes, radiant with energy, and that tall nose, with obvious Leningrad characteristics and strong lines, this is a cold man.

"Hello, I'm from the KGB's Ministry of Internal Affairs in Ukraine. My name is Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin." The person stretched out a big hand and shook it towards Asif.

Putin! If Mhamad were here, he would be very excited. The man in front of him would be Russia's strongman, Putin!

Putin was born in Leningrad in 1952. While in college, he joined the KGB and entered the confidential department of the Leningrad intelligence agency. He worked until 1983, then studied for a year at the KGB school in Moscow. Starting in 1985, the KGB sent Putin to East Germany to collect economic intelligence on West Germany at the time. Until 1990.

Therefore, according to history, Putin should be in East Germany at this time. Unfortunately, Hamad's crossing brought a series of butterfly effects.

When Marshal Akhromeev was dismissed by Gorbachev due to the failure of the war in Afghanistan, a series of personnel changes followed, including the KGB.

Many personnel from Ukraine's KGB agency were transferred to Turkmenistan, leaving a vacancy in Ukraine. As a result, Putin was transferred to Ukraine and did not go to East Germany.

Holding hands together, Asif said: "Nice to meet you, Mr. Putin. At your request, we came to inspect your nuclear power plant, mainly about your safety facilities."

"Very welcome," Putin said. "Please."

People in the KGB are always high and mighty. If I had known this earlier, I would not have been an engineer, but a KGB man! Kyatlov, who was left aside, couldn't help but feel even more depressed. He followed behind while thinking.

"We have a total of four large nuclear reactors here, which provide a steady stream of energy to supply our generators." After walking into the nuclear power plant, Kyatlov finally found the location and introduced it to Asif.

Those tall buildings contain nuclear reactors. Through nuclear reactions, heat is generated, and the cooling water is turned into high-temperature and high-pressure steam, which then drives the steam turbine to generate electricity. Kyatlov understands this basic principle.

"What is the thickness of the containment shell of your reactor?" Asif asked.

The reason why the Chernobyl nuclear power plant had a serious accident was because this type of reactor did not even have a containment shell!

At that time, nuclear experts believed that the possibility of a reactor leak was too small and there was no need for a containment shell. Therefore, the outside of this reactor was just an ordinary factory building with no doors or windows.

If there were enough containment shells outside to withstand the huge pressure caused by nuclear leakage, then there would be no risk of eight tons of nuclear radioactive materials being thrown into the air and causing a large area of ​​Harmony Road.

For Muhammad, even if this type of reactor was really introduced, the first thing to do was to build a thick enough containment shell outside.

This time he was here to find fault, so Asif asked about the containment shell directly.

Hearing Asif's question, Kyatlov was stunned: "What is a containment shell?"

Asif really didn't know. He used to be an engineer in a thermal power plant. Moreover, he was able to get here not by technology, but by means.

"Mr. Kyatlov, you are the chief engineer of the nuclear power plant here, but you don't know what a containment is?" Asif shouted in surprise, so that everyone could hear: "Then how can we inspect the safety of the nuclear power plant here? Are you really the chief engineer here?"

"Of course." Kyatlov said: "I am the chief engineer here. However, the nuclear power plant here does not have a containment."

Although the focus is on climbing up, Kyatlov still knows the basic knowledge. No technical document here mentions such a thing as a containment.

"What do you use as a moderator for your reactor?" Asif continued to ask.

Nuclear reactions rely on the chain reaction of uranium rods, which requires neutrons to stimulate. The neutrons generated by the reaction are fast neutrons. The uranium nuclei capture slow neutrons, so the fast neutrons need to be turned into full neutrons, which requires a moderator.

Moderator? Kyatlov didn't know much about the internal structure of nuclear reactions. When he heard Asif's question, he didn't answer it just now. He couldn't fail to answer it this time.

What is it? I seem to have heard of cadmium rods when reading the literature. Those control rods are cadmium rods! Yes, that's right!

"Cadmium rods." Kyatlov said.

"Those are control rods!" Asif said, "Even a minister like me who is in charge of industry knows that cadmium rods are control rods, not softeners. Do you understand nuclear reactors?"

An engineer on the side quickly said to Kyatlov, "Graphite, our nuclear reactor uses graphite as a moderator."

Those graphite blocks? Kyatlov originally thought that they were used to fix fuel rods and control rods like cement blocks, but they turned out to be moderators!

Each nuclear reactor uses up to 1,700 tons of graphite blocks, which are used as moderators. Kyatlov doesn't understand these at all. In his eyes, this nuclear reactor is just a big boiler.

Putin on the side had a cold face. The chief engineer of the nuclear power plant didn't even know the most basic common sense of nuclear power plants. How did this guy get here?

"We understand that your nuclear reactor is a boiling water reactor. How did you solve the positive cavitation reactivity effect?" Asif continued to ask.

Although the accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in later generations was caused by human operation, there were problems in the design of the reactor. The reactor was in an unsafe condition at low power because the cooling water of this reactor could boil and produce cavitation, and the core was designed to have a positive cavitation reactivity coefficient. The increase in cavitation and the increase in reactivity power would lead to an increase in the number of cavitations, and the reactor would be on the verge of being out of control. The original accident occurred for this reason.

After analyzing this reactor, Pakistani nuclear experts raised these safety questions, and now Asif asked them all.

At the same time, this question was also the last straw that broke the camel's back for Kyatlov. (To be continued ~^~)